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SOUTH SUDAN / FUNDING
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / FUNDING
TRT: 2.21
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/ LOCAL LANGUAGE / NATS
DATELINE: 25 - 27 JANUARY 2014, ADJUMANI, UGANDA – JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
26 – 27 JANUARY 2014, ADJUMANI, BARATUKU REFUGEE CAMP, UGANDA
1. Wide shot, South Sudanese refugees arriving at camp
2. Low shot, South Sudanese refugees walking
3. Wide shot, South Sudanese carrying their belongings
4. Med shot, South Sudanese woman
5. Med shot, refugee children
6. Med shot, refugee mother with children
7. Wide shot, WFP truck carrying food for refugees
8. Wide shot, refugees line receiving food supplies
9. Wide shot, refugees receiving food
10. Med shot, women separating food rations
11. Close up, food
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Gloria Anyawalali, WFP Field Monitor:
“Most of the population coming are children and mothers, so food is a crucial necessity at the moment because as you can see some of them have tracked a long distance they hardly had anything to eat, so their one of the most important need is food at the moment.”
13. Med shot, Kot Achilota preparing food
14. SOUNDBITE (local language) Kot Achilota, 36 year old refugee woman from Bor, mother of six:
“I had nothing to feed my children, only this ration that has been given to me. This is what I will offer to my family”.
15. Wide shot, Kot Achilota carrying food
16. Various shots, children eating
25 JANUARY 2014, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
17. Various shots, WFP food distribution to internally displaced people
The World Food Programme (WFP) announced today (29 Jan) it was in urgent need of funds to help refugees from South Sudan.
At reception centres in Uganda, WFP is working with UNHCR to provide cooked meals to the influx of newly arriving refugees. Around 60,000 refugees have crossed the Ugandan border since mid-December when the crisis broke out. About 87 percent of the refugees are women and children.
Gloria Anyawalali, WFP Field Monitor in Baratuku refugee camp in Uganda, said that “most of the population coming are children and mothers, so food is a crucial necessity at the moment because as you can see some of them have tracked a long distance they hardly had anything to eat, so their one of the most important need is food at the moment.”
In Uganda, WFP has been prioritizing the new arrivals, ensuring that the most vulnerable get 100 percent assistance. WFP’s budget for providing food for refugees in Uganda last year was about US$29 million; this year, it is US$52 million, but so far donors have committed only US$8 million in funds. WFP is funded entirely by voluntary contributions.
In total in Uganda, WFP is assisting an estimated 250,000 refugees, the majority of them from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and South Sudan. All refugees who arrived prior to October 2013 have been receiving only half rations from January because of a lack of funding.
WFP is also assisting tens of thousands of South Sudanese refugees who have arrived in the neighbouring countries of Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya since fighting erupted in South Sudan in mid-December.
Inside South Sudan, WFP and partners have so far provided food for more than 185,000 people displaced by the violence.
WFP has launched an emergency operation to expand assistance to people affected by the crisis in South Sudan. The three-month, US$57.8 million operation will provide emergency food assistance to up to 400,000 internally displaced people (IDPs), including specialized nutritional support for new mothers and young children who are most at risk from a disruption in their food supply.
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